Spilunga e Piccino non potrebbero essere più diversi. Una è alta, di un vellutato color sabbia. L'altro è basso, di un misterioso color nebbia. Mentre Spilunga, che è una giraffa, adora masticare e far scrocchiare le foglie sotto i denti, Piccino che invece è un topo, vivrebbe rosicchiando semi. Tra loro è un continuo punzecchiarsi e discutere su chi sia superiore all'altro. All'improvviso, però, un pericolo mette a rischio la foresta. Decidono allora di unire le forze: Spilunga può vedere oltre gli alberi, mentre Piccino può sentire quello che sta per succedere appoggiando l'orecchio al suolo. Una storia sulle differenze e su come la presunzione individuale possa trasformarsi in reciproca ammirazione. Le illustrazioni di Tomi Ungerer completano alla perfezione il testo di Barbara Brenner, tradotto in versi da Alessandro Riccioni. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This major new work intervenes in today's debates on domestic inequality, examining tensions between work and family life for women. Gender Equality explores class disparity, who should care for infants, and fatherhood in a dual-earner family. Surveying the design of public institutions that could significantly mitigate these pressures, contributors including Nancy Folbre, Janet Gornick, and Marcia Meyers offer useful, thought-provoking prescriptions for real change.

Good Morning, Garden is a tranquil greeting to a new day, and a celebration of all living things in a child's garden. The loosely rhyming, lilting text shows a child's joy in discovering chipmunks, ladybugs, butterflies, and blackberries. This gentle good-morning book is perfect for starting off the day in quiet, curious reverie. Stunning, intricate cut-paper illustrations throughout provide brilliant detail, perfectly capturing the wonder of a morning garden.

Deep in the forest . . .

A bear sharpens her claws on a tree trunk. The scratched bark chips; a tiny hole forms. Timber beetles tunnel inside. The hole grows bigger and bigger.

In lyrical prose, Barbara Brenner reveals the fascinating happenings in one small place. She explains how, over many years, the rough hole transforms into a cozy hollow -- home to salamanders, tree frogs, a family of white-footed mice. Tom Leonard?s absorbing illustrations take you beneath the bark to a hidden world. His warm, lifelike depictions of squirrels and bluebirds, snakes and spiders show the splendor that dwells in the most unexpected places.

So stop. Observe. Explore your natural world. If you look closely enough, you will surely find . . . one small place that is home for something.

Through a simple question-and-answer format and lush illustrations, readers go back to the early 1770s and learn what life in the busy colony outpost was like. Original.

This landmark book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. Gathering never-before-published eyewitness accounts from Holocaust survivors, Michael Brenner presents a remarkable history of this period. While much has been written on the Holocaust itself, until now little has been known about the fate of those survivors who remained in Germany. Jews emerging from concentration camps would learn that most of their families had been murdered and their communities destroyed. Furthermore, all Jews in the country would face the stigma of living, as a 1948 resolution of the World Jewish Congress termed it, on 'bloodsoaked German soil.' Brenner brings to life the psychological, spiritual, and material obstacles they surmounted as they rebuilt their lives in Germany. At the heart of his narrative is a series of fifteen interviews Brenner conducted with some of the most important witnesses who played an active role in the reconstruction--including presidents of Jewish communities, rabbis, and journalists.

Based on the Yiddish and German press and unpublished archival material, the first part of this book provides a historical introduction to this fascinating topic. Here the author analyzes such diverse aspects as liberation from concentration camps, cultural and religious life among the Jewish Displaced Persons, antisemitism and philosemitism in post-war Germany, and the complex relationship between East European and German Jews. A second part consists of the fifteen interviews, conducted by Brenner, with witnesses representing the diverse background of the postwar Jewish community. While most of them were camp survivors, others returned from exile or came to Germany as soldiers of the Jewish Brigade or with international Jewish aid organizations. A third part, which covers the development of the Jewish community in Germany from the 1950s until today, concludes the book.

Instead of focusing on Christopher Columbus himself, this unique historical guide explores the world he left behind, offering little-known facts and stories about fifteenth-century Spain that will expand children's understanding of the world at that time. Reprint.

Celebrates the tree, one of the most useful plants on Earth

Asks the reader to imagine what it would be like to be an ant, describing what ants look like, what they eat, where and how they live, and more

Asks the reader to imagine what it would be like to be an ant, describing what ants look like, what they eat, where and how they live, and more

Demonstrates how the concepts and principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence were drawn from the experiences of living in America in the late eighteenth century, with emphasis given to how children lived on a New England farm, a Southern plantation, and the frontier.Demonstrates how the concepts and principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence were drawn from the experiences of living in America in the late eighteenth century

Free people,
Free land

The Muldie boys and their father have come a long way to Kansas. But when Daddy moves on, the three boys must begin their own journey. They must learn to care for one another and face the dangers of the wilderness alone.

Illus. in full color. Nicky's mom is making so much stew that he is allowed to bring a friend home for supper. But his best friend Alec can't come, and Carla won't come--she hates beef stew. So Nicky begins a funny, frantic quest for someone to share his favorite dish.